Back of Beyond
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C.J. Box
Edgar Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box delivers a thriller in Back of Beyond about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone, now reissued with additional bonus content including an introduction from the author.Cody Hoyt, although a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his friend Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who’s fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. As Cody digs deeper into the case, all roads lead to foul play. After years of bad behavior with his department, Cody is in no position to be investigating a homicide, but he will stop at nothing to find Hank’s killer. When clues found at the scene link the murderer to an outfitter leading tourists on a multiday wilderness horseback trip into the remote corners of Yellowstone National Park—a pack trip that includes his son Justin—Cody is desperate to get on their trail and stop the killer before the group heads into the wild. In a fatal cat-and-mouse game, where it becomes apparent the murderer is somehow aware of Cody’s every move, Cody treks into the wilderness to stop a killer hell-bent on destroying the only important thing left in his life.*BONUS CONTENT: This edition of Back of Beyond includes a new introduction from the author and a discussion guide
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Author
C.J. Box
Pages
384
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2011-08-02
ISBN
1429970685 9781429970686
Ratings
Google: 3
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"This was even better than I was hoping for! I’m not a huge fan of the alcoholic divorced cop trope, and I haven’t read any CJ Box yet, so this was a big mystery (pun!) going into this. And honestly, the main reason I picked it up was that it was set in Yellowstone, which I where I spent the weekend. <br/><br/>But wow, was I on tenterhooks reading this! It was a well done mystery that blended traditional cop drama/investigation with other perspectives, and included what is fast becoming a favorite setting of mine: backcountry isolation. It’s almost like an extension of the locked room mystery, but instead the killer is in a specific camp group.<br/><br/>I definitely want to continue the series, and I might even go back and read Joe Pickett since I’ve heard great things! Plus, apparently Big Sky is based on this series, and I love a TV tie in."
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